April 17, 2011

BP Unfiltered

The Paper Trail 4/17

by John Perrotto

 

Interesting stories from newspapers across the nation:

• Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star writes that the Royals' start inspires cautious optimism.
• Tim Sullivan of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes that Adrian Gonzalez's contract is Exhibit A in baseball's inequity.
• Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes that Jayson Werth may have been a more worthy signing for the Red Sox than Carl Crawford.
• John Tomase of the Boston Herald writes that anti-DH bias is likely to hold David Ortiz back from the Hall of Fame.
• Dave Krieger of the Denver Post writes that the best is yet to come for the Rockies' pitching staff.
• Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune writes that Barry Bonds deserves to serve time.
• Steve Slowinski writes for the St. Petersburg Times that Sam Fuld is unlikely to keep up his offensive production but might play defense well enough to compensate.
• George A. King III of the New York Post writes that Brett Gardner needs work on his swing.

John Perrotto is an author of Baseball Prospectus. 
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